Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island by Janet D. Wheeler audiobook.

Genre: mystery

Billie Bradley has a talent for turning trouble into adventure, and her third year with her inseparable chums, Laura Jordon and Violet Farrington, begins with a simple school errand that goes wrong. Sent from Three Towers Hall to collect rare ferns, the girls lose their way in the deep woods and stumble into a meeting that leaves them with more questions than answers. Before long, brighter days arrive in the form of an invitation from their friend Connie Danvers to spend part of the summer at her family's bungalow on rugged Lighthouse Island, off the Maine coast. Salt air, swims, and lively outings with the boys promise an ideal vacation, until the sea reminds everyone who is in charge. When a fierce storm lashes the coast and a wreck follows, three frightened little children are found washed ashore, unable to explain who they are or where they came from. With Uncle Tom in the lighthouse and danger still lingering along the shoreline, Billie and her friends take it upon themselves to protect the waifs and untangle the mystery behind them, testing their courage, compassion, and quick thinking at every turn.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:09:10) Chapter 02

(00:18:21) Chapter 03

(00:28:23) Chapter 04

(00:38:42) Chapter 05

(00:49:18) Chapter 06

(00:59:51) Chapter 07

(01:10:34) Chapter 08

(01:18:56) Chapter 09

(01:30:00) Chapter 10

(01:40:39) Chapter 11

(01:50:18) Chapter 12

(02:02:42) Chapter 13

(02:11:36) Chapter 14

(02:22:01) Chapter 15

(02:32:51) Chapter 16

(02:42:13) Chapter 17

(02:52:07) Chapter 18

(03:01:40) Chapter 19

(03:12:39) Chapter 20

(03:22:44) Chapter 21

(03:32:02) Chapter 22

(03:44:28) Chapter 23

(03:57:44) Chapter 24

(04:12:02) Chapter 25

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Billie Bradley at Twin Lakes by Janet D. Wheeler audiobook.

Genre: mystery

Billie Bradley is ready for a summer that is supposed to be nothing but fresh air and fun. With her brother and their closest friends, she heads to Twin Lakes, where two rented cottages promise days of boating, swimming, campfire meals, and plenty of laughter - even when a simple cooking plan turns into chaos. Their vacation has a proper chaperone in the kind but capable Miss Martha Beggs, yet Twin Lakes quickly proves to be more than a carefree resort. Before long, Billie and her chums are drawn toward an artists' colony, whispers about missing work, and a shadowy sadness that seems to hang over one of the newcomers they meet. Then Billie discovers Hulda, a frightened girl living under the harsh control of an old boatman, Jerry, and the happy holiday takes on a sharper edge. Why is Hulda so terrified, and what is she hiding in her sketching and silence? As Billie offers friendship and protection, she also begins to piece together a puzzling story about Hulda's past - a mystery that could change the course of the summer for everyone at Twin Lakes.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:07) Chapter 02

(00:22:00) Chapter 03

(00:30:23) Chapter 04

(00:38:59) Chapter 05

(00:46:51) Chapter 06

(00:57:25) Chapter 07

(01:06:38) Chapter 08

(01:17:30) Chapter 09

(01:25:31) Chapter 10

(01:34:43) Chapter 11

(01:42:43) Chapter 12

(01:51:59) Chapter 13

(02:01:34) Chapter 14

(02:10:47) Chapter 15

(02:20:22) Chapter 16

(02:29:53) Chapter 17

(02:39:15) Chapter 18

(02:48:42) Chapter 19

(02:58:11) Chapter 20

(03:09:24) Chapter 21

(03:18:46) Chapter 22

(03:28:18) Chapter 23

(03:39:28) Chapter 24

(03:49:41) Chapter 25

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Billie Bradley and the School Mystery by Janet D. Wheeler audiobook.

Genre: mystery

Back at Three Towers Hall on the shores of Lake Molata, outspoken Billie Bradley is ready for a new term with her best friends, Violet and Laura, until a sudden accident changes everything. On a goldenrod-picking hike, Billie slips into a life-threatening predicament and is saved by Edina Tooker, a new student from Oklahoma whose rough edges and plain clothes make her an instant target for the school's snobs, especially the sharp-tongued Amanda Peabody and her ever-lurking sidekick. Determined to repay her rescuer and do what is right, Billie takes Edina under her wing, even when it costs Billie her own standing and strains friendships she thought were unbreakable. But the real trouble begins when a secretive letter arrives for Edina and, soon after, money collected for a farewell gift to a beloved teacher vanishes. Whispers turn to accusations, and the evidence seems to point in the worst possible direction. With loyalty on trial and reputations at stake, Billie must untangle the truth behind the disappearance before an innocent girl is ruined and the school is torn apart.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:13) Chapter 02

(00:20:43) Chapter 03

(00:29:43) Chapter 04

(00:38:36) Chapter 05

(00:48:42) Chapter 06

(01:02:07) Chapter 07

(01:10:02) Chapter 08

(01:19:51) Chapter 09

(01:29:23) Chapter 10

(01:39:42) Chapter 11

(01:53:58) Chapter 12

(02:01:44) Chapter 13

(02:10:53) Chapter 14

(02:23:44) Chapter 15

(02:35:24) Chapter 16

(02:46:56) Chapter 17

(02:53:17) Chapter 18

(03:02:23) Chapter 19

(03:14:12) Chapter 20

(03:24:08) Chapter 21

(03:31:37) Chapter 22

(03:49:32) Chapter 23

(04:03:58) Chapter 24

(04:18:58) Chapter 25

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens audiobook.

Genre: drama

On a bitter Christmas Eve in Victorian London, the hard-fisted moneylender Ebenezer Scrooge insists that warmth and generosity are foolish luxuries. He snaps at his cheerful nephew, refuses charity for the poor, and grudgingly gives his overworked clerk, Bob Cratchit, only the barest holiday allowance. But when night falls, Scrooge's locked-in habits and long-buried memories are shaken by an eerie visitation that forces him to confront what he has become. Guided through vivid scenes that span his earlier years, his present relationships, and the human consequences of his indifference, Scrooge faces a mounting moral reckoning: will he continue to live in isolation, measuring life only in profit, or will he choose connection, compassion, and responsibility while there is still time? Rich with atmosphere, sharp social observation, and flashes of humor, A Christmas Carol weaves ghost story suspense with a deeply human portrait of regret, conscience, and the possibility of change - all set against the music, light, and longing of the Christmas season.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:38:41) Chapter 2

(01:13:58) Chapter 3

(02:00:07) Chapter 4

(02:31:33) Chapter 5

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Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

On a quiet afternoon, young Alice follows an unusually hurried White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole and tumbles into Wonderland, a place where logic bends, language plays tricks, and nothing stays the same size for long. As Alice tries to make sense of her strange surroundings, she navigates a cascade of bewildering encounters: a grinning Cheshire Cat who speaks in riddles, a Mad Hatter and March Hare locked in an endless tea party, and a Duchess whose household turns chaos into routine. With each meeting, Alice is tested by shifting rules and sudden transformations that challenge her confidence and identity. Her journey leads her toward the Queen of Hearts, a volatile ruler who treats every disagreement as a personal offense and turns justice into spectacle. Caught between curiosity and frustration, Alice must learn how to hold on to her own sense of self in a world that constantly contradicts itself. Witty, imaginative, and sharply observant, Lewis Carroll's classic celebrates the wonder of childhood while satirizing the grown-up world of manners, authority, and nonsense.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:07) Chapter 02

(00:25:42) Chapter 03

(00:36:02) Chapter 04

(00:50:36) Chapter 05

(01:03:44) Chapter 06

(01:19:34) Chapter 07

(01:33:46) Chapter 08

(01:48:04) Chapter 09

(02:02:26) Chapter 10

(02:17:36) Chapter 11

(02:29:18) Chapter 12

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Billie Bradley and Her Classmates by Janet D. Wheeler audiobook.

Genre: mystery

At Three Towers Hall, Billie Bradley and her best friends, Violet Farrington and Laura Jordon, expect a winter term filled with skating parties, lessons, and laughter. But when an afternoon on Lake Molata turns into a desperate rescue of three little children who have fallen through thin ice, Billie is drawn into the hardships of a struggling local family and a mystery that refuses to stay outside the school gates. Rumors swirl about a valuable missing invention, and soon Three Towers Hall itself seems touched by trouble: petty thefts, uneasy secrets, and the ominous, long-locked tower that the girls have been warned never to enter. As jealousy and rivalry flare among the students, Billie also faces an enemy in sneaky classmate Amanda Peabody, whose schemes threaten to turn friends against one another and place blame where it does not belong. Following scattered clues through snowstorms, midnight corridors, and the shadowy upper reaches of the school, Billie must rely on courage, quick thinking, and loyal friendship to protect the innocent and uncover the truth behind the locked tower's secret.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:31) Chapter 02

(00:25:02) Chapter 03

(00:41:49) Chapter 04

(00:51:20) Chapter 05

(01:03:25) Chapter 06

(01:15:17) Chapter 07

(01:24:51) Chapter 08

(01:36:19) Chapter 09

(01:47:17) Chapter 10

(01:57:58) Chapter 11

(02:07:46) Chapter 12

(02:17:33) Chapter 13

(02:27:46) Chapter 14

(02:38:13) Chapter 15

(02:48:27) Chapter 16

(03:02:15) Chapter 17

(03:12:34) Chapter 18

(03:22:24) Chapter 19

(03:32:28) Chapter 20

(03:42:29) Chapter 21

(03:51:20) Chapter 22

(04:02:30) Chapter 23

(04:12:39) Chapter 24

(04:26:05) Chapter 25

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Pomes Penyeach by James Joyce audiobook.

Genre: poetry

Pomes Penyeach is James Joyce's compact, meticulously crafted collection of thirteen poems - a small book with an outsized emotional reach. Moving through city streets, coastal landscapes, and intimate rooms, Joyce traces the shifting weather of desire, memory, and loneliness with a lyric voice that is at once musical and sharply observant. These poems linger on brief encounters and private reckonings: a lover glimpsed and lost, a marriage shadowed by distance, a mind haunted by what it cannot recover, and a self trying to name its own restless hungers. Joyce's language is spare but resonant, balancing tenderness with irony, and clarity with unsettling ambiguity. Across the collection, recurring motifs of song, seasons, and light on water bind the pieces together, while each poem stands as a distinct moment - a note struck cleanly and allowed to ring. For listeners who want a concentrated dose of Joyce's artistry outside his longer fiction, Pomes Penyeach offers a swift, evocative journey into modernist lyricism and the complicated currents of the human heart.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:02:52) Chapter 02

(00:06:49) Chapter 03

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A Token for Children by James Janeway audiobook.

Genre: religion

First published in the late seventeenth century, James Janeway's A Token for Children is a classic work of Puritan devotion written to speak directly to young listeners and their families. Framed as a series of brief accounts, the book gathers stories of boys and girls whose short lives are marked by earnest faith, searching self-examination, and a steadying hope in Christ. Janeway writes as a pastor and teacher, using plain language and vivid scenes to show how children can wrestle with fear, temptation, sickness, and the certainty of death, while also learning prayer, repentance, and trust in God's promises. Parents, ministers, and caregivers appear alongside the children, offering counsel, asking probing questions, and urging a life shaped by Scripture. The central tension is not outward adventure but inward: how a child, aware of sin and mortality, can find assurance, comfort, and a sense of purpose. Both sobering and tender, A Token for Children aims to form the conscience, awaken spiritual seriousness, and encourage a household faith that holds fast under trial.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:04:31) Chapter 01

(00:18:46) Chapter 02

(00:24:38) Chapter 03

(00:34:03) Chapter 04

(00:37:06) Chapter 05

(00:42:12) Chapter 06

(00:46:35) Chapter 07

(00:59:32) Chapter 08

(01:09:59) Chapter 09

(01:13:55) Chapter 10

(01:17:30) Chapter 11

(01:49:49) Chapter 12

(01:53:06) Chapter 13

(02:09:54) Chapter 14

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Captives of the Thieve-Star by James H. Schmitz audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Newly married and newly rich in trouble, Peer and Channok are small-time space operators with a talent for finding the wrong kind of salvage. A simple plan to spirit away their latest haul turns into a nightmare when they grapple a drifting derelict, the Ra-Twelve, and discover they have latched onto a prize someone else is desperate to claim. Word of stolen treasure and a missing ship spreads fast across the fringe, drawing predators, opportunists, and a shadowy group known only as the Mysterious Nine. But the worst danger may already be aboard. The Ra-Twelve is linked to the Yomm, an uncanny alien presence that warps fear into something immediate and lethal, turning corridors and cargo holds into traps. Hunted in open space and hemmed in by a ship that does not feel entirely dead, Peer and Channok must rely on quick thinking, hard-earned street skills, and the stubborn strength of their partnership to stay alive long enough to learn what the Ra-Twelve really carries. James H. Schmitz blends pulp-speed adventure with eerie alien menace in a tight, high-stakes chase among the stars.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:21) Chapter 02

(00:33:47) Chapter 03

(00:54:48) Chapter 04

(01:15:42) Chapter 05

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The Green Girl by Jack Williamson audiobook.

Genre: scifi

On May 4, 1999, the sun goes dark at noon and Earth begins to slide toward a new Ice Age. In a quiet Florida cottage, young Melvin Dane has only one refuge from the panic spreading across the world: his brilliant foster father, Dr. Samuel Walden, a scientist who has been preparing for an attack no one else believes is possible. Walden has built a strange, all-terrain machine capable of traveling by land, air, and sea, and his calculations point to an impossible source for the catastrophe - a hostile intelligence hidden far beneath the ocean in the abyssal depths. Together they plunge toward the Magyar Deep, descending into a buried, otherworldly realm of alien landscapes, uncanny vegetation, and creatures that challenge every boundary between plant and animal. But the greatest shock is personal: the mysterious Green Girl Melvin has seen in dreams since childhood may be real, and her presence ties the fate of their expedition to a question larger than survival - whether two utterly different worlds can understand each other before the darkness above becomes permanent.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:08:08) Chapter 02

(00:16:55) Chapter 03

(00:23:37) Chapter 04

(00:32:17) Chapter 05

(00:40:38) Chapter 06

(00:49:12) Chapter 07

(00:58:08) Chapter 08

(01:05:15) Chapter 09

(01:12:59) Chapter 10

(01:19:57) Chapter 11

(01:27:48) Chapter 12

(01:36:34) Chapter 13

(01:44:23) Chapter 14

(01:51:20) Chapter 15

(01:58:47) Chapter 16

(02:06:38) Chapter 17

(02:16:04) Chapter 18

(02:23:20) Chapter 19

(02:32:54) Chapter 20

(02:40:27) Chapter 21

(02:49:25) Chapter 22

(02:58:06) Chapter 23

(03:04:42) Chapter 24

(03:12:29) Chapter 25

(03:19:11) Chapter 26

(03:26:53) Chapter 27

(03:35:19) Chapter 28

(03:43:17) Chapter 29

(03:52:52) Chapter 30

(04:02:32) Chapter 31

(04:12:31) Chapter 32

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